Re: FC2: firefox won't run after installing search and mouse plugins

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Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 18:27:59 -0700
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

Strange, does mozilla work? Try running locate to find out where the
mouse gestures plugin was installed. There may also be a
/usr/lib/mozilla-1.6/ directory and maybe even a
/usr/lib/mouse-gestures or something like that.

On Sun, 30 May 2004 17:44:19 -0700 (PDT), Frank Rehwinkel
<redback_frank@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Just put FC2 on a second machine at home. It's great.
> Kudoes to the developers and testers.
>
> For days, I've had firefox installed and running fine.
> I had used apt and synaptic to get/install the
> package.
> Firefox was made the default gnome browser. All good.
> Very good.
>
> Today I decided to load some plugins. I added about
> eight search plugins and the mouse gestures plugin.
> All as a regular user (i.e. not root). There was one
> error message that popped to the screen during the
> mouse gestures install which I think had to do with
> not being able to write or create to a file. I didn't
> note the error, thinking the install would just be
> aborted. The next popup indicated the install had
> completed successfully. So, wondering if it had or
> had not installed properly, I closed my firefox
> program and tried to start it back up.
>
> But it won't start. The symptom, when typing firefox
> in a shell, is that after a few seconds, it ends.
> Nothing writen to stdout or stderr. Nothing pops up.
> No new process created. If I try to start it from the
> gnome panel, a see a "Starting Web browser" window
> being created, but after a few seconds it disappears.
>
> I've uninstalled firefox, and reinstalled it, to no
> avail. I searched for a ~/.firefox directory. One
> didn't exist. I've moved the ~/.mozilla directory out
> of the way and the ~/.phoenix directory out of the
> way, still no good. I uninstalled firefox again, and
> moved the /usr/lib/firefox directory out of the way.
> And reinstalled firefox. Still no good. I moved
> /usr/lib/mozilla out of the way, and still firefox
> just returns immediately.
>
> I have not tried rebooting, but as this isn't Windows,
> I wouldn't expect that to help.
>
> What file/directory am I missing? Or what package
> dependancy have I broken by uninstalling firefox and
> reinstalling (all via synaptic)? I may have made the
> problem worse during this debugging because firefox
> won't start under my root login any longer either.
> But admittedly I had installed the mouse gesture
> plugin there too, but at least saw it work once as
> root. That install didn't cause a file/directory
> failure message to be printed. I did not install the
> search plugins as root though. Now after the
> uninstall/reinstall. Even root can't get firefox to
> do anything.
>
> -stuck
>
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